Bathroom Remodeling · Brockport, NY

We rebuild bathrooms in Brockport’s old canal houses

From village houses near the canal to student rentals off Main St, we handle bathrooms built for a different century.

Walk into most bathrooms near Main St or the canal in Brockport and you’re looking at a room built when the house went up, sometime in the 1800s or early 1900s, then patched a dozen times since. A lot of these places turned into SUNY Brockport student rentals, which means the bathrooms take hard use every year and get maybe a few weeks between leases to get fixed right.

Village houses from the 1800s and early 1900s were built with plaster walls, undersized joists for modern fixtures, and drain lines that were never meant to handle a shower running daily for a house full of students. Once we open a wall we typically find old galvanized pipe, no vapor barrier behind the tub surround, and framing that shifted over a hundred plus years. None of that is unusual here, it just means the plan has to account for what’s actually behind the wall, not what the age of the house suggests should be there.

What’s included

Full gut remodels for canal-village bathrooms, wall to wall
Tub-to-shower conversions built for fast tenant turnover
Tile showers with real waterproofing behind the tile
Vanity installs sized for tight village-house floor plans
Exhaust venting fixes for bathrooms with no real outlet
Small-bathroom layout changes that add usable space

What matters in Brockport bathrooms

The most common issue in Brockport bathrooms is a shower or tub that was never properly waterproofed to begin with, especially in student rentals where the surround was caulked and re-caulked instead of fixed. Water gets behind the wall, the subfloor near the tub goes soft, and nobody notices until a tenant reports a soft spot underfoot. We tear back far enough to find the real edge of the damage, rebuild with a proper waterproofing system, and stop the cycle instead of patching over it again.

One crew runs the job start to finish, no subs bouncing in and out. We show up when we say we will, cover floors and seal off the work area, and clean up every day, not just at the end. Before anything gets torn out, we walk the bathroom with you and price it straight, no changing numbers halfway through. If you want to talk through options first, call (585) 488-3155.

Notes for Brockport homeowners

From village houses near the canal to student rentals off Main St, we handle bathrooms built for a different century.

Rental bathrooms fall under village code enforcement, so fixture spacing, venting, and shutoffs need to check out before a new lease starts.
Lots in the canal village are tight, meaning old bathrooms are often small with awkward door swings that limit what layout changes are possible.
Turnover for student rentals runs on the SUNY Brockport academic calendar, so August windows fill up fast if you wait until summer to call.
Older village homes near Rt 31 and Rt 19 often still have original drain lines under the slab or crawlspace, which changes how a gut remodel gets priced.

How a project runs

No mystery pricing, no disappearing crews.

Walk-through

We measure, photograph, and talk through what you actually want.

Written proposal

A clear scope and one investment number, emailed to you.

Schedule

Start date, material selections, and a stage-by-stage plan.

Build & walk-out

Daily cleanup, a final walk-through, and a punch list closed out.

Brockport questions

Our rental turns over every August. Can a bathroom remodel fit in that window?

It depends on scope. A tub-to-shower conversion or vanity swap can often get done between leases. A full gut job with new tile and plumbing usually needs more lead time, so call early and we will map out a schedule that works before the next tenants move in.

Does Brockport require a permit for bathroom remodeling?

Most gut remodels and any work touching plumbing or electrical need a permit through the village. Rental units also go through code enforcement, so if you’re a landlord we make sure the finished bathroom passes inspection without a scramble before your next lease starts.

Our house is from the early 1900s. What usually turns up once you open the walls?

Old galvanized supply lines, cast iron drain stacks, and framing that was patched over decades of use. We find it early, tell you what it costs to deal with before we go further, and build the waterproofing and layout around what the house actually has, not what the plans assumed.